The
Brookhaven Rail Terminal (BRT) is a truck-train
trans-load facility in
Yaphank, New York on
Long Island. The 28-acre initial site was built with $40 million in private funds and opened on September 27, 2011. It is projected to take 40,000 long haul trucks off Long Island roads and handle 1 million tons of freight a year by 2016. It includes 13,000 feet of new track, with three tracks for construction material, such as
asphalt and
concrete, and six tracks for merchandise, such as flour and
biodiesel.